Iron Butt Rally

The 2009 Iron Butt Rally started yesterday from Spartanburg in South Carolina. Not all of the 100 starters will last the eleven days and around 11000 miles it will take them to get to the finish in Spokane, Washington in eleven days. There are only three riders from Europe this year; Paul Allison from England, Chris McGaffin from Northern Ireland, and Gerhard Memmen-Kreuger from Germany ( afourth, Michiel Kerkhof from Belgium had the misfortune to crash his bike and break his ankle a week before the rally started). Reports about the rally are published daily here on the IBA website.